Will anyone actually miss secondary school ?

Captain Hman

Will anyone here miss their school after the leaving cert
or will they be like me and be glad they never have to go back ?

Vito Corleone

Won't care too much, will miss some aspects. I'm not looking forward to college a whole lot like many people are though tbh.

cfc.forever

Hmm, I will miss the learning side of things and the variety of subjects to choose from although I will be glad when I'm leaving, because I want to pursue a good career rather than been in school all my life.

Bears and Vodka

Even though arguably I didn't have a great time in school, I miss it, I did have some great memories there and it's so relaxed compared to college. Here you have the false feeling of being free and independent but in reality you have piles of essays, assignments, readings... I'm not complaining, I love it, but I do look back at school years with fondness.

DylanII

Ever one of you lot WILL miss secondary school ...

areyawell

School is handy, wait till ye get to the real world. Any wishes they could be back in school with no responsibilities. Leaving cert is a piece of piss compared to college

MickFleetwood

DylanII wrote: »

Ever one of you lot WILL miss secondary school ...

will we?

I know I won't.

Liveforrugby

areyawell wrote: »

School is handy, wait till ye get to the real world. Any wishes they could be back in school with no responsibilities. Leaving cert is a piece of piss compared to college

This is not true

Captain Hman

I honestly can't wait to go to college. I have had a few good memories of school but to be honest
theres a lot of ***** in my school and ill be glad not to ever see them again

partyatmygaff

Liveforrugby wrote: »

This is not true

Perfectly true for most courses tbh.

Just wait until your first year exams are looming and you realise.

HugsiePie

I don't think I'll miss secondary school, but at the same time I'm afraid I'll hate college (and I'll probably get all reminiscent of secondary school and start to remember it fondly, even though I really don't like it)

I feel kind of inadequate in school, and I'm afraid I'll just feel even more out of place in college.

bleach94

HugsiePie wrote: »

I don't think I'll miss secondary school, but at the same time I'm afraid I'll hate college (and I'll probably get all reminiscent of secondary school and start to remember it fondly, even though I really don't like it)

I feel kind of inadequate in school, and I'm afraid I'll just feel even more out of place in college.

Feel the exact same, if only we could see the future :P on top of not really liking a lot of people in secondary school, I don't know what course to pick or even whether to move away from where i am or not!

curly135

I know I'll miss random things like the teachers, the classrooms etc. but I'm still looking forward to getting away from it all and into college

HugsiePie

bleach94 wrote: »

Feel the exact same, if only we could see the future :P on top of not really liking a lot of people in secondary school, I don't know what course to pick or even whether to move away from where i am or not!

Moving away is the one thing I'm absolutely sure I will do

Geo10

I miss secondary school so much (I'm in 1st year of college). I miss my teachers (especially a particular few), some friends and the whole 'easiness' of the Leaving Cert (I know you may not feel that it's easy at all when you're doing it, but in hindsight it was easy- just think of how hard the JC seems when you're doing it and how easy you feel it was looking back at it)

PictureFrame

I'd give anything to go back to school for a week, I'm in first year Psychology and the level of work thrust at you to do yourself and research, readings, references, everything is unprecedented in my opinion. The LC is extremely stressful IMO, but much, much handle than any college course. College us very tough.

But as another person posted, I guarantee you will all miss school. Everyone I've talked to in college agrees, overnight you just lose your sense of security, your friends constant companionship and just the ambiance that you created in school for years.

It's a little bit upsetting for me to realise I'm never going back to school, as crazy as it sounds, it's very true. I loved school, loved everything about it, it's very hard to go from being so well known and respected by students, staff and teachers alike to being basically anonymous in a University.

But c'est la vie, I will, more than likely if I have my way, be teaching in a school in a couple of years, Psychology is a great start I think though!

MickFleetwood

PictureFrame wrote: »

I'd give anything to go back to school for a week, I'm in first year Psychology and the level of work thrust at you to do yourself and research, readings, references, everything is unprecedented in my opinion. The LC is extremely stressful IMO, but much, much handle than any college course. College us very tough.

But as another person posted, I guarantee you will all miss school. Everyone I've talked to in college agrees, overnight you just lose your sense of security, your friends constant companionship and just the ambiance that you created in school for years.

It's a little bit upsetting for me to realise I'm never going back to school, as crazy as it sounds, it's very true. I loved school, loved everything about it, it's very hard to go from being so well known and respected by students, staff and teachers alike to being basically anonymous in a University.

But c'est la vie, I will, more than likely if I have my way, be teaching in a school in a couple of years, Psychology is a great start I think though!

what about the people who have a horrible time in school and dread each day because of it? will they miss it, too?

I despise secondary school, and I will never miss it for as long as I live. It's the bane of my existence, the constant hatred and loathing of everybody in there.
I don't mean to go off on a tangent, but I genuinely fail to put into words how much I detest school.

Liveforrugby

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Perfectly true for most courses tbh.

Just wait until your first year exams are looming and you realise.

nope had my mock viva, bar engineering/maths/physics, college is a piece of piss, especially medicine, same as lc just gotta put in hours learning stuff off

PictureFrame

Liveforrugby wrote: »

bar engineering/maths/physics, college is a piece of piss, especially medicine, same as lc just gotta put in hours learning stuff off

So grossly untrue. I'd love to give you my Psychology and see how firstly impossible it is to learn off and secondly how the work is in no way easy..

weirdspider

MickFleetwood wrote: »

what about the people who have a horrible time in school and dread each day because of it? will they miss it, too?

I despise secondary school, and I will never miss it for as long as I live. It's the bane of my existence, the constant hatred and loathing of everybody in there.
I don't mean to go off on a tangent, but I genuinely fail to put into words how much I detest school.

Just out of curiosity is it the actual work or is it the other students? I loved school last year, I had plenty of friends but when I repeated I was suddenly alone and I didn't have a single person to turn to for the mostpart of the day! That can make school feel like a dreary and bleak place.

weirdspider

Liveforrugby wrote: »

nope had my mock viva, bar engineering/maths/physics, college is a piece of piss, especially medicine, same as lc just gotta put in hours learning stuff off

Sorry, have you completed every single college course? In order for your argument to have any sort of strength you must have...

Geo10

Liveforrugby wrote: »

nope had my mock viva, bar engineering/maths/physics, college is a piece of piss, especially medicine, same as lc just gotta put in hours learning stuff off

Learning stuff off? I wish!!! Try studying some arts subjects and come back and tell us how easy college is... :rolleyes:

areyawell

Liveforrugby wrote: »

nope had my mock viva, bar engineering/maths/physics, college is a piece of piss, especially medicine, same as lc just gotta put in hours learning stuff off

especially medicine :rolleyes: You obviously have no clue about medicine, multiple work placements, all the equipment they use and is not as simple as "learning stuff off". Medicine is probably the most intense and hardest course you can do. Not just saying that cause its 600 points.

Secondary schools you are spoon fed. First year of courses are generally easy enough where they ease you into it but wait till the following years.

What course are you doing? From your other posts it seems you are afraid of flunking out

MickFleetwood

weirdspider wrote: »

Just out of curiosity is it the actual work or is it the other students? I loved school last year, I had plenty of friends but when I repeated I was suddenly alone and I didn't have a single person to turn to for the mostpart of the day! That can make school feel like a dreary and bleak place.

It's not work that bothers me really. I don't really get picked on in school, i'm not a massive loner, I just hate being around a bunch of tools.

I do realize the irony in what i'm saying as they probably view me as a tool also. :pac: I've skipped school 13 times this year all in all, probably a fair indication of how much I can't stand it.

HugsiePie

PictureFrame wrote: »

I'd give anything to go back to school for a week, I'm in first year Psychology and the level of work thrust at you to do yourself and research, readings, references, everything is unprecedented in my opinion. The LC is extremely stressful IMO, but much, much handle than any college course. College us very tough.

It's a little bit upsetting for me to realise I'm never going back to school, as crazy as it sounds, it's very true. I loved school, loved everything about it, it's very hard to go from being so well known and respected by students, staff and teachers alike to being basically anonymous in a University.

Please don't tell me that college is easier than the LC, I'm on the verge of a breakdown as it is.
Being anonymous is another thing I fear. I hate being "lost in the crowd" in school as it is, I felt that from second year on-wards a lot of teachers left me in the dust, my confidence took a hit and my grades have taken a nose dive since, I don't want the same to happen in college. I don't want to be lost in the crowd again.
Also the thought of not coming back to the place is daunting. I don't like it but I feel almost ashamed that I didn't make any sort of an impact, not in the school, nor among my peers, it will be like I was never there, a place where I spent 6 years of life will have no indication that I was ever there (bar files and crap), and my school mates will probably forget I ever existed soon after we finish the LC.
Of course there are people (staff and students) who I will miss, some of them I will miss terribly but I am the furthest thing from popular you could imagine. I'm awkward to talk to and (admittedly) quite a boring person, I feel the friends I do have are only friends with me out of obligation and thus I am genuinely afraid I won't make any friends in college.

But then again as I said earlier I feel very inadequate and out of place in school, I'm just hoping college will be the lesser of two evils.

Did/does anyone else felt/feel the same?

partyatmygaff

Liveforrugby wrote: »

nope had my mock viva, bar engineering/maths/physics, college is a piece of piss, especially medicine, same as lc just gotta put in hours learning stuff off

You haven't even sat your first year Christmas exams yet (Which are nothing compared to the annuals) so you may be a bit premature calling college easy.

As the years go by (I can't say for Medicine as it's not my course) but what with research projects and exams looking for less regurgitated fact and "How does X, Y and Z happen?" and more "How would you deal with X?" it becomes more and more difficult.

Take a look at a final year Pharmacy and Medicine paper for instance:
http://www.tcd.ie/Local/Exam_Papers/2011/XP/XPH40071.pdf
http://www.tcd.ie/Local/Exam_Papers/2011/XC/XCM6MHA2.pdf

Learning things off won't get you far when you're asked how you'd respond to real-life situations.

Vito Corleone

HugsiePie wrote: »

Being anonymous is another thing I fear. I hate being "lost in the crowd" in school as it is

I actually like the idea of being anonymous and "lost in the crowd". I'm mostly concerned about who I will be living with and what they are like.

FaoiSin

From what I've done so far I'd say that college is much tougher than secondary school. I prefer it though as I'm doing something I'm actually interested in. I think that's the difference.

Peregrine

HugsiePie wrote: »

Please don't tell me that college is easier than the LC, I'm on the verge of a breakdown as it is.
Being anonymous is another thing I fear. I hate being "lost in the crowd" in school as it is, I felt that from second year on-wards a lot of teachers left me in the dust, my confidence took a hit and my grades have taken a nose dive since, I don't want the same to happen in college. I don't want to be lost in the crowd again.
Also the thought of not coming back to the place is daunting. I don't like it but I feel almost ashamed that I didn't make any sort of an impact, not in the school, nor among my peers, it will be like I was never there, a place where I spent 6 years of life will have no indication that I was ever there (bar files and crap), and my school mates will probably forget I ever existed soon after we finish the LC.
Of course there are people (staff and students) who I will miss, some of them I will miss terribly but I am the furthest thing from popular you could imagine. I'm awkward to talk to and (admittedly) quite a boring person, I feel the friends I do have are only friends with me out of obligation and thus I am genuinely afraid I won't make any friends in college.

But then again as I said earlier I feel very inadequate and out of place in school, I'm just hoping college will be the lesser of two evils.

Did/does anyone else felt/feel the same?

Aww don't worry Hugsie, I feel the same

I'm that person that knows everyone but nobody remembers. Even though my school is mostly filled **** I hate, I know I'll miss some of them terribly.

I never got involved in anything like Student Council. Only teachers that teach/taught me know me, only students in my year know me, which is all sad given how small my school is.

Now I feel I should've done something in TY, rather than being lazy for 9 months. I don't wanna be forgotten the minute I finish my LC, the thought of being a nobody in a school I spent 6 years in scares me. Unfortunately I only realised this 3 months ago in 5th year..and needless to say I have tried my best to get involved more ever since but I feel like it's too late.

I know I'll miss school but I don't wanna miss it when I know it doesn't even know me.

bluejay14

I think I will miss it when we leave. As hard as we all think the lc is I know it's only going to get harder when we leave. I'll miss the sense of security and comfort when I walk in every morning. It'l be a strange feeling walking into a completely different set of rooms and buildings after spending 6 years here.

I'll no doubt miss seeing everyone every day. There'll probably be people I might never see again for one reason or another It just wont be the same being around a different group of people.

CookieMonster.x

I will. Having spent 6 years there with the same people and the same routine I think it will be very weird not going back at all. College seems very daunting, especially getting lost in the crowd, not being able to find yourself and settle in etc when you've been friends with the same people in school. Now it will be a whole different scene so yeh I think I will miss it! As well as that it means I'm getting older and life is moving on - I feel very young and definitely not old enough to be in college :P

MickFleetwood

HugsiePie wrote: »

Please don't tell me that college is easier than the LC, I'm on the verge of a breakdown as it is.
Being anonymous is another thing I fear. I hate being "lost in the crowd" in school as it is, I felt that from second year on-wards a lot of teachers left me in the dust, my confidence took a hit and my grades have taken a nose dive since, I don't want the same to happen in college. I don't want to be lost in the crowd again.
Also the thought of not coming back to the place is daunting. I don't like it but I feel almost ashamed that I didn't make any sort of an impact, not in the school, nor among my peers, it will be like I was never there, a place where I spent 6 years of life will have no indication that I was ever there (bar files and crap), and my school mates will probably forget I ever existed soon after we finish the LC.
Of course there are people (staff and students) who I will miss, some of them I will miss terribly but I am the furthest thing from popular you could imagine. I'm awkward to talk to and (admittedly) quite a boring person, I feel the friends I do have are only friends with me out of obligation and thus I am genuinely afraid I won't make any friends in college.

But then again as I said earlier I feel very inadequate and out of place in school, I'm just hoping college will be the lesser of two evils.

Did/does anyone else felt/feel the same?

why do you care about popularity? live your life the way you want it, if you want to be remembered go out and make them remember you.

11Charlie11

I will actually really miss it cause I feel so young at 16 and didn't do ty .. Most people in college will much older than me

jc4517

They say the people who can't wait to leave school are the first to miss it the most

Liveforrugby

areyawell wrote: »

especially medicine :rolleyes: You obviously have no clue about medicine, multiple work placements, all the equipment they use and is not as simple as "learning stuff off". Medicine is probably the most intense and hardest course you can do. Not just saying that cause its 600 points.

Secondary schools you are spoon fed. First year of courses are generally easy enough where they ease you into it but wait till the following years.

What course are you doing? From your other posts it seems you are afraid of flunking out

Doing med, like I said, it's piss, learning muscles in the leg atm, so what? anyone can do it just a mater of putting hours in. Cousin did engineering, bar that and maths/physics everything is piss op trust me, lc given conditions takes it

Liveforrugby

partyatmygaff wrote: »

You haven't even sat your first year Christmas exams yet (Which are nothing compared to the annuals) so you may be a bit premature calling college easy.

As the years go by (I can't say for Medicine as it's not my course) but what with research projects and exams looking for less regurgitated fact and "How does X, Y and Z happen?" and more "How would you deal with X?" it becomes more and more difficult.

Take a look at a final year Pharmacy and Medicine paper for instance:
http://www.tcd.ie/Local/Exam_Papers/2011/XP/XPH40071.pdf
http://www.tcd.ie/Local/Exam_Papers/2011/XC/XCM6MHA2.pdf

Learning things off won't get you far when you're asked how you'd respond to real-life situations.

Nope, still just learning off scenarios and writing them down. true I havn't sat christmas exams yet, they're nxt week, but like I said easy. People just like to go "yea I go to college, I'ts so hard!" bs, I put in about 20hours in total for my xmas exams for med and I will pass

for lc I put in probs 10 times that amount by christmas

partyatmygaff

Liveforrugby wrote: »

Nope, still just learning off scenarios and writing them down. true I havn't sat christmas exams yet, they're nxt week, but like I said easy. People just like to go "yea I go to college, I'ts so hard!" bs, I put in about 20hours in total for my xmas exams for med and I will pass

for lc I put in probs 10 times that amount by christmas

And you think learning off scenarios will be any use to you come the clinical years or when you're asked to do a research project?

Unless you're willing to learn off every single possible scenario and every possible combination of patient type, condition and complication then you won't get very far.

If it was as easy as you make it out to be, there wouldn't be supplemental exams or people spending days after days continuously studying come exam time.

alleystar

My advice: Enjoy secondary school while you can (even if you don't like it). College is bigged up (in most cases) to be something it's not. Yeah the freedom is great and hopefully when you're in college you're doing something you love. With me, I got my first choice in August, a course I had wanted to do for three years and my heart was fully set on it. But three months on and I've dropped out because I just found the course and content too difficult after coming from the LC. I felt I was in over my head with the amount of assigments, CA's and exams.

I would never say the Leaving Cert was in any way easy, it was extremely difficult but the thing about the LC- you're spoon fed the work. In college, you're out on your own. Be aware of that before you go to college and be fully sure that you are suited to the course(s) you have put down on your CAO.

stop animal cruelty

l'll never miss secondary school, worst years of my life, the place really changed me

kevin12345

Really wish people who are already in college would stop derailing the thread by saying how difficult college is compared to the Leaving Cert, as if we weren't stressed enough already. :rolleyes:

I'm looking forward to going to college but I'll definitely miss some aspects about secondary school. I'll miss my friends, some of my teachers and the routine. Still can't wait to leave the place all the same.

Prettyfireworks

DylanII wrote: »

Ever one of you lot WILL miss secondary school ...

I left school 3 years ago, dont miss it one bit. Never have and highly doubt I ever will

spurious

There are far more difficult things to deal with in life than college exams or school. In the midst of some of them, it's a rare person wouldn't swap it for the relative simplicity of school.

Slow Show

I think my opinion towards the quote 'Schooldays are the best days of your life' sums up my feelings on the matter. As in if this is as good as it gets, meh I will of course miss school and my friends and teachers and even the broad range of subjects and I'll more than likely be quite sad on my last day but at the same time, I feel like being this age and having all these rules is horribly restricting. I don't know, living in a somewhat isolated place and having stricter-than-average parents has just made me yearn for freedom over the last few years so yeah, I'll be excited (and quite terrified) to move on. I think it'll be easy to look back on these years and think how easy and effortless they were but it's easy to be idyllic about the past, there was a whole load of crap days in the midst of the good ones too (for me at any rate).

OisinS94

Am in first year of college and I do actually sort of miss secondary school. Mainly because I made a friends with people who I spent 6 years of my life with every single week day.

None of them are at my college so of coarse I'll miss them. Also there was a sort of relaxed attitude throughout most of secondary school that I enjoyed.

In saying that I am still enjoying college life so far. There's a lot less "clique's" in college and the hours aren't too bad so I've a lot of free time. Also no stupid school rules like no phones, or no chewing gum or having to wear uniform.

shinesun

DylanII wrote: »

Ever one of you lot WILL miss secondary school ...

Doubtful

certifiedcrepe

Just saying, I'm a first year biochemistry student in UL and I don't miss secondary one bit. That being said, secondary school were the worst years of my life. I wasn't bullied relentlessly or anything, but the people and teachers were just awful and I had to teach myself everything the teachers failed to. I could not be happier to be out of secondary and i feel like i am finally where i belong. I have many friends who had a great time in secondary school and they also do not miss it because college is so different. To be honest, so far, the only people I've heard say they miss it are the messers and bullies who do nothing now that school is over besides draw the dole and go on Facebook all day.

Geo10

certifiedcrepe wrote: »

Just saying, I'm a first year biochemistry student in UL and I don't miss secondary one bit. That being said, secondary school were the worst years of my life. I wasn't bullied relentlessly or anything, but the people and teachers were just awful and I had to teach myself everything the teachers failed to. I could not be happier to be out of secondary and i feel like i am finally where i belong. I have many friends who had a great time in secondary school and they also do not miss it because college is so different. To be honest, so far, the only people I've heard say they miss it are the messers and bullies who do nothing now that school is over besides draw the dole and go on Facebook all day.

I miss secondary school A LOT and I wasn't a messer or a bully who is now doing nothing with my life. I'm in 1st year of college and I do like college. I have a career plan and am excited for next year of college when I get to pick exciting modules and electives... that said I still preferred secondary school and would love to go back (in fact I will be going back in the future but as a teacher not a student ).
The reason I miss secondary school is because my teachers were the loveliest, kindest and most caring people I have ever met and I had really good relationships with many of them- especially a particular two. On top of that I had some very good friends who I don't really see anymore and I loved the whole structure of the Leaving Cert. I though many of the syllabi were fascinating... in fact I did 2 extra subjects myself because I liked too many subjects to narrow it down to 7!
So what I'm saying is don't presuppose everyone who misses secondary school are the dossers. In fact it's probably the opposite. Fair enough if you didn't like secondary school.. it's not for everyone.. but most dedicated students will and not messers/ bullies.

iDave

stop animal cruelty wrote: »

l'll never miss secondary school, worst years of my life, the place really changed me

I hear ya buddy

certifiedcrepe

Geo10 wrote: »

I miss secondary school A LOT and I wasn't a messer or a bully who is now doing nothing with my life. I'm in 1st year of college and I do like college. I have a career plan and am excited for next year of college when I get to pick exciting modules and electives... that said I still preferred secondary school and would love to go back (in fact I will be going back in the future but as a teacher not a student ).
The reason I miss secondary school is because my teachers were the loveliest, kindest and most caring people I have ever met and I had really good relationships with many of them- especially a particular two. On top of that I had some very good friends who I don't really see anymore and I loved the whole structure of the Leaving Cert. I though many of the syllabi were fascinating... in fact I did 2 extra subjects myself because I liked too many subjects to narrow it down to 7!
So what I'm saying is don't presuppose everyone who misses secondary school are the dossers. In fact it's probably the opposite. Fair enough if you didn't like secondary school.. it's not for everyone.. but most dedicated students will and not messers/ bullies.

Yeah that's completely fair enough like, everyone has their own opinion. I wasn't generalising it saying that the only people that miss secondary are dossers/whatever, I said the only people i knew were in that situation. Nonetheless, I'm delighted you had a good time in secondary school, I feel like I missed out on many things to tell my futuristic kids and family about the joys of school, because I don't have anything to tell haha.

Geo10

certifiedcrepe wrote: »

Yeah that's completely fair enough like, everyone has their own opinion. I wasn't generalising it saying that the only people that miss secondary are dossers/whatever, I said the only people i knew were in that situation. Nonetheless, I'm delighted you had a good time in secondary school, I feel like I missed out on many things to tell my futuristic kids and family about the joys of school, because I don't have anything to tell haha.

Oh okay sorry I read it as you were generalising but I see you actually weren't! :P I have to read posts more carefully before I reply! :pac: At least you'll have brilliant college stories... I don't think I'll ever enjoy college as much as I did school but I suppose the 2 different structures just suit different people!

OneArt

I left school in 2009 and can honestly say I do not miss it.

Don't get me wrong, I had great craic at times. Most of it, however, was filled with constantly being told what to do. I felt suffocated and couldn't wait to get out!

A few years later and I live on my own and work for myself, I wouldn't trade that for secondary school if you paid me!